Digital BW, The Print

As I said, I have staked out my position.  It's a position I'm comfortable
with and one which rewards artists for their work and displays it they way
they had intended.

As to whether something is legal or not under the doctrine of fair use, it
is never, in my experience, "VERY" clear (neither for the gifted nor the
simple).  I have more than a passing familiarity with copyright law, and a
compelling argument can be made that this is not fair use. The devil is in
the details.  As you may have inferred by now, I'm not going to engage in a
long discussion of our individual, relatively untrained interpretation of
fair use.  I'll accept we can both make reasoned arguments supporting our
case.

In practical terms fair use is mostly irrelevant since the expense of
enforcement means only the most egregious offenses are pursued or even
clarified.  Consequently, in small skirmishes like this, we are most often
guided by principle and common practice.

In my view, for this forum to accept reproduction of an artist's image found
on the web as common practice will put us well on our way down the slippery
slope.



Kevin (uberpuffer) Gulstene


On 5/6/02 3:07 PM, "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...> wrote:

> Pufmeister,
> 
>> I don't make copies of an artist's work for any use.  Fair or not.  If I
>> want a copy I'll buy a copy.  If I want two copies, I'll buy two copies.
> 
> That doesn't have anything to do with it being legal or not though...  You
> have NEVER made a cassette from an album or CD etc., or recorded a movie off
> TV etc.?  Never?  Never made a photocopy of an article in a magazine?  You
> bought another copy of the magazine instead?  Never printed out a web page?
> NEVER?
> 
>> Kevin 'puffy' Gulstene
> 
> Becoming a rap star, eh ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
> 
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